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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278807
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854771
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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Su, Yaqin; … - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873573
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Is the Scholarly Field of Entrepreneurship at Its End?
Naudé, Wim - 2024
This paper presents tentative evidence from 68,792 papers published between 1961 and 2020 that progress in the scholarly field of entrepreneurship is declining. It is found that the annual number of papers published in entrepreneurship has increased exponentially since the Second World War,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534018
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Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship
Fossen, Frank M.; McLemore, Trevor; Sorgner, Alina - 2024
This survey reviews emerging but fast-growing literature on impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on entrepreneurship, providing a resource for researchers in entrepreneurship and neighboring disciplines. We begin with a review of definitions of AI and show that ambiguity and broadness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045448
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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271286
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328895
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884235
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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333276
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Experience and Technology Adoption
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2004
Vintage human capital models imply that young workers will be the primary adopters and beneficiaries of new technologies. Because technological progress in general, and computers in particular, may be skill-biased and because human capital increases over the lifecycle, technological change may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261816